Carter Bishop Named Visiting Gerald L. Bepko Chair in Law
09/22/2025
Carter Bishop has been named the Visiting Gerald L. Bepko Chair in Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He will hold the chair through the 2027-2028 academic year. Bishop joined the faculty in fall 2024.
“Professor Bishop is a worthy awardee of the Bepko Chair, having joined our faculty as Visiting Professor after more than 40 years as a law professor with a significant national and international reputation,” said IU McKinney Dean Karen E. Bravo. “He is a leader in the academy and in the legal profession with a world-wide reputation. His prolific scholarship includes writing and co-writing ten books and treatises, supporting both student learning and professional practice, as well as literally dozens of journal articles.”
The Gerald L. Bepko Endowed Chair was established in 2010 by many generous alumni and friends of the law school. It honors the late Gerald L. Bepko, IU Indianapolis Chancellor Emeritus, IU Trustee Professor, and Professor of Law at IU McKinney Law.
“It is a great honor for me to serve as the Visiting Gerald L. Bepko Chair,” Professor Bishop said. “I am grateful to the entire McKinney law school community and especially Dean Bravo and Vice Dean Martin.”
Professor Bishop teaches closely held business organizations, law of nonprofit organizations and tax-exempt healthcare organizations, bankruptcy law, income taxation of individuals, fiduciaries and business associations.
Professor Bishop joined IU McKinney from Suffolk University Law School where he is professor emeritus. He is a visiting professor of law teaching closely held business organizations, law of nonprofit organizations and tax-exempt healthcare organizations, bankruptcy law, income taxation of individuals, fiduciaries and business associations. Professor Bishop graduated from Drake University Law School (with honors), served as the managing editor of the Drake University Law Review, the National Moot Court Team (two years), and won (twice) the Drake University Law School moot argument before the Iowa Supreme Court. After completing his juris doctor studies, he graduated from the New York University Law School with an LL.M. (taxation) and served Professor James Eustice as a research assistant. After NYU, he clerked for the Honorable Darrell Wiles, a judge for the United States Tax Court, Washington, D.C. He practiced law in Minneapolis, Minnesota, becoming a partner in a major law firm and served of counsel in two other law firms where he successfully tried and won an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. While in Minnesota, he chaired a Minnesota Bar Association Committee to draft its first Limited Liability Company Act and LLP amendments to the Uniform Partnership Act, both of which were adopted. Later he served as a national reporter for four LLC and LLP drafting committees of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and as a member of the American Institute. He has served as a national expert witness and consultant on cases around the U.S. involving complex LLC and business issues.
Professor Bishop entered academia to become the founding director of the Graduate Tax Program and professor of law at the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and later joined the faculty of the Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. Following this, he served as a visiting professor at many law schools including Georgetown, George Washington University, Washington & Lee, American University, Catholic University and University of San Diego.
Professor Bishop’s research interests include broad aspects of LLC issues facing lawyers. He is the co-author of a law treatise Bishop & Kleinberger, Limited Liability Companies (Warren, Gorham & Lamont) as well as many law review articles on similar matters. He has also spoken at numerous conferences. In 2021, Professor Bishop received the Martin I. Lubaroff Award presented by the ABA Business Law Section, Committee on LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities to a lawyer who has consistently demonstrated leadership, scholarship, and outstanding service in LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities law.
